Square with Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill ▦
Symbol Meaning
This symbol is used in social media, pictograms, rebuses, and riddles, as well as in textual graphics.
In social media, the dashed square can be placed at the beginning and end of a pseudonym, group name, or community. This way, it will emphasize the group name or username.
As a pictogram, this square can represent “cell” or “prison” since it visually resembles bars. It can also carry the same meaning when used in a rebus or riddle.
Finally, the square with a rectangular pattern is used in textual graphics to create drawings and style articles and posts on websites and social media platforms.
The symbol “Square with Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill” is included in the “Geometric shapes” subblock of the “Geometric Shapes” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
quadrature, geometry, shape.
| Unicode Name | Square with Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Geometric Shapes |
| Unicode Subblock | Geometric shapes |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 25A6 |
| Simple case change | 25A6 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 96 A6 | 226 150 166 | 14849702 | 11100010 10010110 10100110 |
| UTF-16BE | 25 A6 | 37 166 | 9638 | 00100101 10100110 |
| UTF-16LE | A6 25 | 166 37 | 42533 | 10100110 00100101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 25 A6 | 0 0 37 166 | 9638 | 00000000 00000000 00100101 10100110 |
| UTF-32LE | A6 25 00 00 | 166 37 0 0 | 2787442688 | 10100110 00100101 00000000 00000000 |
